Will stay outside for another hour to snow-blow paths in the back yard for the dog. When G opened the back door, Riley was expecting to find the deck and then those deep drifts. Imagine his delight when he saw the paths? Riley fairly bounced out the door and ran all over the yard. The paths go from the house, to the right, around the veg garden and back up, past the shed and to the door. The snow is up to my waist. About 2.5 feet.
The sun is shining and it's about 40 degrees today. I might just go sit on the deck and get a dose of suntan. I took these pictures with the new camera-- It was too bright to see what I had actually snapped but they came out pretty nice.
This next picture is of one of the placemats that I finished up last week (with a bit of shadow on the lower edge from me). It's just scraps of fabric laid on a precut felt "batting" with a backing fabric underneath. I add and subtract bits of stuff from the wastebasket. I may cut things to fit but usually I don't. Very wabi sabi. All the bits are tacked down with invisible thread and a zigzag stitch. I may have added straight stitch quilting on this one. I like the blue ones best of all.
When I was program director of a quilt chapter, I had everyone (who would) make a block a month for charity quilts. I gave them a selection of colors as a theme. All of the blocks I made for the challenge were made this way. I did seam them together but this is how they looked. Not like the others.
I am trying to decide what to make for dinner today. I have Italian sausages (hot and not) so we could have sausage and peppers. Or a sausage ragu with pasta (G). I have a recipe for the pork ragu our favorite restaurant makes. The chef uses Italian sausage to make the ragu. I think I should look for the recipe. I know it calls for fresh fennel, but perhaps a few fennel seeds will be okay. I don't want to leave home. Where did I put the card?????
3 comments:
that reminds me of 2009 in Spookane when we had 96 inches in the course of 2 months.
7973Love the placemat, love the wabi sabi style. I don't work that way, but am trying to. I'm bored with the traditional style of quiltmaking, time for something new.
We got about the same amount of snow down here as you, now as I look out the window I see that it's snowing again!
I love this blue placemat! Very nice.
I wanted to ask if you've considered throwing the bricks down the chimney and then removing them from the basement. I saw them do it on This Old House. I like the idea of removing it and putting a window in its place. It sounds as if it would free up space inside the house as well.
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